Cideft-mill



(No Model.)

M. B. KAYLOR. CIDER MILL.

No. 323,041. Patented JulylZB, 1885 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARK B. KAYLOR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ClDER-MILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,041, dated July 28, 1885.

Application filed December 22, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARK B. KAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cider-Mills, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to cider-mills; and it consists in the construction andnovel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is aview in perspective of a cider-mill embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 represents the endless apron.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings. A designates the frame of the machine, andBis the grinding-cylinder, which is in the form of the inverted frustnni of a cone, and is incased in a shell, 0, which is tapered from above downward, and has a dischargeopening, D, in its lower end. Below the shell C, I provide a trough or receptacle, D, which is secured to a bench, E, which is provided with a roll, F, journaled in the legs of the bench below the table of the same. Near the shell 0, I provide two presser-rolls, G G,which are arranged vertically, having their lower bearings in boxes on the bench E and their upper hearings in a cross-piece, H, of the frame. The shaft I of the roll G is provided at its upper end with a pinion, I, which engages a pinion, I, on the shaft J of the roll G. The shaft J is longer than the shaft I, and is provided at its upper end with a gear-wheel, K, which engages a pinion, L, on the shaft of the grinding-cylinder B. The mill may be driven by horse, steam, hand or water power, either by attachment to the grinding-cylinder or to the press-rolls. At opposite ends of the frame A, I provide two rolls, M M. Over these rolls M M and the roll F, and between the vertical rolls G G, passes an endless apron, P, about one yard wide, with a netting, P, two inches wide in the middle, extending lengthwise of the apron. The pomace falls upon this apron as it leaves the shell 0, and is carried. by the apron P between the press-rolls G G, which operate as wringing-rolls, and twist the apron and express the cider from the pomace. The cider falls into the receptacle D, and is delivered to a vessel placed to receive it by a spout, Q. After being pressed the pomace is discharged at the end of the mill, and may be removed in any convenient manner. The advantages of this construct-ion are that the operation is made continuous, thus saving one-third in time, and it is more effective, the amount of pressure that may be placed on the pomace being practi cally unlimited.

In connection with the roll M, I provide a clearing-brush, M which clears the e5 pressed pomace from the apron P.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination, with the conical grinding-cylinder and the vertical press-rolls, of the carrying-rolls, and the endless apron provided with the netting P, substantially as specified. v

2. The combination, with the vertical conical grinding-cylinder and the vertical pressrolls, and mechanism, substantially as described, for operating said cylinder and rolls, of the carrying-rolls, the endless apron provided with the netting, and the receptacle with the spout, substantially as specified.

3. In a cider-mill, an endless apron provided with a longitudinal central strip of netting, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the frame provided with two carrying-rolls, and the bench having one carrying-roll and the receptacle with spout, of the grinding-cylinder, the vertical press-rolls, the endless apron with netting-strip,-and mechanism, substantially as described, for operating the cylinder and press-rolls, as set forth.

5. The combination, with the carrying-rolls and the endless apron, of the clearing-brush, 

